On March 28, 2025, Dr. Allison Schachter (Vanderbilt University) delivered the lecture “Lorraine Hansberry, the Holocaust, and Race in Postwar American Intellectual Life” followed by a reception. This event was co-sponsored by the Departments of English and Modern Languages and Literatures, the Program in Jewish Studies and the Baker-Nord Institute for the Humanities.

Allison Schachter is Professor of English and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in the Twentieth Century (Oxford 2013) and Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919-1939 (Northwestern University Press, 2022), which was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award. She is the co-translator, with Jordan Finkin of From the Jewish Provinces, Selected Stories of Fradl Shtok, which was awarded the 2022 MLA Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies. She is currently working on a book about midcentury Jewish and African American women intellectuals.